I recently got the Novak Discharge Tray SE and I was wondering what people set their cut-off voltage at when discharging their batteries using this product. Any help and information is greatly appreciated as I am new to discharging batteries. Thanks in advance.
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I recently got the Novak Discharge Tray SE and I was wondering what people set their cut-off voltage at when discharging their batteries using this product. Any help and information is greatly appreciated as I am new to discharging batteries. Thanks in advance.
.5 volts if you use .9 (standard) you will find the aaa s dont fully discharge.
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.5 for stock... .7 for mod... i find it makes a differnce in run time... george is correct though i find the .9 is not enough...
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Thank you very much Berm and Junior for such quick responses. I have another question that hopefully you guys might be able to help me with. I discharged the batteries at .5 and I took them off the discharger and put them in my Lacrosse BC9009 charger right away to just see what the reading would be. On the lacrosse charger I got a reading of anywhere between 1.2 v to 1.25 v. Does that sound correct or is it possible that I am doing something wrong? I waited for all of the lights to go out on the discharger tray so I don't think I did anything wrong there but who knows.
I didn't charge the batteries yet because I read somewhere that you should let the cells rest before you recharge them again. I just did it to see what kind of reading I was going to get after discharging the cells.
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Kevin, when the batteries rest, they will go back up in voltage again. The more current drain on the cells, the lower the voltage will go. At 3A, the voltage will drop more than 1A, which is why you typically get less capacity when you discharge at 3A than you do at 1A.
Depending on the purpose, I usually use .9v for standard discharge, .7v for full discharge. And if I have a pack partially used, I will do 1.1v just to balance before I charge them back up. If any go off immediately (meaning that the cell is less than the cutoff voltage already), then I lower it to 1v and let the cells balance.
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Kevin, when the batteries rest, they will go back up in voltage again. The more current drain on the cells, the lower the voltage will go. At 3A, the voltage will drop more than 1A, which is why you typically get less capacity when you discharge at 3A than you do at 1A.
Depending on the purpose, I usually use .9v for standard discharge, .7v for full discharge. And if I have a pack partially used, I will do 1.1v just to balance before I charge them back up. If any go off immediately (meaning that the cell is less than the cutoff voltage already), then I lower it to 1v and let the cells balance.
Thanks Eugene. Do you use the hold function on the Discharger? If so, how long do you keep them in the "hold" function before you take the batteries off of the discharger?
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